It does sound like it was suicide here, but it's often the people who have been sober for years who end up OD'ing because their tolerance is not what it was in the midst of their drug use. That's what happened to Philip Seymour Hoffman.

Like all on the board, I'm waiting for more facts to roll in. But julesh makes a great point, and to pile on, a lot of times what a drug dealer sells you as X is actually Y. With opiods, not only have we got pills and relatively cheap heroin pretty easily available, another risk out there is fentanyl - it's exceptionally easy to OD on fenatnyl, especially if you don't realize that's what you're using.

So it's especially risky when someone falls of the wagon and starts using again. Not only is their tolerance almost certainly much lower than when they quit, the stuff on the street is trending more and more potent these days.

Whether suicide, OD, or other cause, it's a sad day for music. For those of you with depression, please get help - people do care. And the same for those struggling with substance abuse.

What a shame. He was one of those musicians that had my trust like ok sure do an album with Timbaland and I'll listen or ok you want to cover a Bob Dylan track and change the words I'm there. I know I will have superunknown on Heavy rotation today

We don't ever truly know what a person is going through or how they feel. And to say someone who struggles with depression doesn't have a "solid head on" is shallow.
350 million people worldwide suffer from depression and many more from other mental illness. We are imperfect.
RIP Chris.

Wow sorry you're so easily offended. I guess you live in a political correct little world and are scared to have termenology that is honest and to the point.

Someone who has depression doesn't infact have a solid head. As the term is defined as someone with good judgment. a person who suffers from depression would infact not have good judgement many times as we have seen. It's cool you want to live in a world where things are sugar coated and hands are held.

Odd it seems I riled you up first when I posted facts...you know because definitions and all. Also how does point out the fact I was right make me Super Tough? Sorry reality smacked you in that Snowflake face.

Hopefully this sadness may inspire other to get help before it's too late.

I watched an interview with Dave Grohl recently and thought how unique he is to have experienced this tragedy all around him, and how much he has his shit together: being clean, appreciating life, family, and relative humilty. Total respect.

Those were the big bands in the grunge scene, which was huge then. But there were other huge non-gurnge bands, such as U2, Radiohead, RHCP, etc.

I might speculate that the reason the mega-grunge bands are now leaderless might have to do with the negativity that such music embraces. The songs drip with negativity. That is great sometimes, but must wear on the bands. Grunge was the opposite of "sunshine and rainbows" and I guess it shouldn't be too surprising that many of its leaders are now gone.

I loved grunge when I was young. I was full of angst. It spoke to me. It brings back great memories of great music, but it doesn't resonate as often as it used to for me, since I have adjusted better to my surroundings.

I know they came out of Seattle in the same era, but IMO there is very little "grunge" about Soundgarden. Nirvana, Alice In Chains, Mudhoney, Mother Love Bone, Green River, and others kind of fit the bill. Soundgarden? Not so much.

I always looked at Pearl Jam, STP and Soundgarden as outliers in what people commonly call "grunge" (even though they get lumped in). Pearl Jam had clear blues influences and virtually no obvious punk influence. STP was so versatile as to really avoid categorization in my mind, but was not really "grunge" (and of course not from Seattle). And Soundgarden was a rock band at its core - pushing toward heavy metal at times, and Cornell getting a bit more psychodelic later on.

All just my opinion, and worth what you paid for it. I love music from every band listed above, BTW. I just bristle when folks lump any music that felt new in the early 1990s as "grunge".